Ash-tray.



P. H. COLLINS.

ASH TRAY.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 15. I918.

Patented Feb. 18, 1919.

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essence.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 18, 11919.

Application filed .Tune 15, 1918. Serial No. 240,106.v

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL H. COLLINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Penns Grove, in the county of Salem and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ash-Trays, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawmgs.

This invention relates to ash trays and the general object of the invention is the provision of an ash tray with means for putting out smolderin cigarettes or cigars.

A further 0 ject is the provision of an ash tray having at its-center a domical casing formed with a plurality of openings to receive the lighted ends of cigarettes and cigars, this casin being also formed to receive the standar of a match holder.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

My invention is illustrated in the accom-- panying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a top plan view of my improved ash tray; and

Fig. 2 is a diametrical section.

Referring to these figures, l0 designates the tray proper which may be of any suitable desi or configuration and 11 designates the domical portion of the tray which is made of sheet metal and is formed to provide an attaching flange 12. The central portion of 4 the tray 10 is flat and the domical portion on member 11 has its flange 12 resting upon its flat portion and suitably attached thereto as bysoldering so that the domical portion arches over the flat central portion of the tray. The domical portion of this body is preferably provided with a plurality of openings 13 which, if the tray is designed for cigar ashes is large enough to receive a cigar while if the tray is designed for cigarettes the holes 13 are made correspondin ly smaller. Preferably these holes 13 are isposed adjacent the flange 12 so that the cigarette or cigar will rest upon the flange 12 with its lighted end disposed through one of these holes. The central portion of the mem-' ber 11 has a socket 14 in which a standard 15 for a safety match holder 16 is disposed. This member 11 may be attached to the ash tray in any suitable manner, as by soldering, brazing or riveting.

A cigar or cigarette while smoldering gives forth a very unpleasant efliuvium, due to the incomplete combustion. This is particularly true of certain kinds of cigarettes containing material which makes them smolder until completely consumed. With this device, however, it is only necessary to insert the end of the cigar or cigarette in the opening in order for it to go out in a short v time so that it is no longer an offense.

It will be noted that a cigar or cigarette when placed upon this tray is supported upon the upturned margin of the tray and upon the wall of the perforation 13 in which the end of the cigar or cigarette is inserted. Thus the cigar is supported out of contact with any ashes which may gather within the tray. Because air cannot have free access to the cigar or cigarette when its end is inserted into the dome-shaped central orfion 11, the cigar or cigarette will smol er for a very short time and then go out.

What I claim is An ash tray having a dish-shaped body formed with an upstanding marginal wall, the middle portion of the body being flat and the body having secured to its middle a centrally disposed domical member extending upward from the body and over the flat cen-' tral portion thereof and formed with an opening adjacent the bottom of the tray to receive the lighted end .of a cigar or cigarette, the bottom of the tray extending beneath the domical member. I

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses. I

PAUL H. COLLINS.

Witnesses:

H. D. House, GEO. T. Yos'n. 

